The Cancer That Is Justin Trudeau:
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Just crane crazy! Fearless daredevils hang over Moscow with one arm (DRONE VIDEO)
vantage point, climbing a crane and hanging from it with one arm – all without a safety harness. The outrageous stunt is enough to make your heart skip a beat.
The video published on Sunday gets off to an “innocent” start with one of the daredevils standing on a narrow ledge on top of a building – but it gets much more heart-stopping than that.
The two are then shown on top of a huge yellow crane, atop a tall building in a business center called Moscow City. The center in the Russian capital features a...
Monday, April 25, 2016
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Scientists can now make lithium-ion batteries last a lifetime
Researchers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) said that's exactly what they were doing when they discovered how to increase the tensile strength of nanowires that could be used to make lithium-ion batteries last virtually forever.
Researchers have pursued using nanowires in batteries for years because the filaments, thousands of times thinner than a human hair, are highly conductive and have a large surface area for the storage and transfer of electrons.
The problem they have encountered, however, is that nanowires are also extremely fragile and don't hold up well to repeated discharging and recharging, known as "cycling." For example, in a typical lithium-ion battery, they expand and grow brittle, which leads to cracking.
UCI doctoral candidate Mya Le Thai solved the brittleness conundrum by coating a gold nanowire in a manganese dioxide shell and encasing the assembly in an electrolyte made of a Plexiglas-like gel. The combination, they said, is reliable and resistant to failure.
The findings were published today in the American Chemical Society's Energy Letters. Hard work combined with serendipity paid off in this case, according to senior author Reginald Penner.
"Mya was playing around, and she coated this whole thing with a very thin gel layer and started to cycle it," Penner, chair of UCI's chemistry department, said in a statement. "She discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any...
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